TY - JOUR ID - 65978 TI - Upgrading of Basrah-Kirkuk Blend Crude Oil Through Mechanical-Acoustical Effect and (Labs) as Surfactant JO - Engineering and Technology Journal JA - ETJ LA - en SN - 1681-6900 AU - Sharif Hamadi, Adel AU - Raheem, Gufran AU - Hussain, Salam AD - Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 30 IS - 16 SP - 2778 EP - 2791 KW - non KW - Convential Upgrading KW - Rotary Pulsation Apparatus KW - surfactant DO - 10.30684/etj.30.16.4 N2 - Non-Convential method has been used in this study for upgrading mixture of Basrah- Kirkuk crude oil through mechanical - acoustical effect using hydrodynamical coaxial turbo machine type Rotary Pulsation Apparatus (RPA) implementing ultra-high reliability in shearing rotor-stator operation. The analysis of the crude oil after treatment in RPA showed that on increasing the rotation time from 5 to 10 min with rotor speed of 7610 rpm, leading to an increase in the total yield of light and intermediate petroleum cuts from 30 to 39 vol%, with an increase in API gravity from 29 to 40, reduce flash point from 75 to 54.C and reduce pour point from -10 to -32.C. The results also showed that, adding LABS surfactant leads to a further increase in API gravity to 45, reduced flash point to 50.C, reduced pour point to -36 .C and increased yield of light and intermediate fraction to 40 vol% within 10 min and 7610 rpm UR - https://etj.uotechnology.edu.iq/article_65978.html L1 - https://etj.uotechnology.edu.iq/article_65978_7fe0d1e2bb2d0df322908849ecebdb50.pdf ER -